Advantages and disadvantages of buying a house young instead of renting?

Wait until your employment is steady long term, once you are settled into a job first rent one or two places. This rental time will allow you to gather stuff for your first home. A home requires an tremendous amount of stuff, at least a Uhaul truck full just for indoors. A house also requires a shed full of stuff and a garage full of stuff. Having an apartment full of stuff when you move to a house means you only need new outdoor stuff.

You could go directly to buying a 4 bedroom house but you won't even furnish all the rooms and buy all the window coverings the first year and the heat and air conditioning bills will surprise you. You could rent out rooms to your friends until you lose all your friends and learn how to evict or become a long term landlord learning some hard lessons,

Mean while your career may require a couple of moves maybe away farther than a commute until you get your career stable.

The transaction costs in buying and selling a house are high. Maintaining a house is expensive. When the roof leaks, you don't call the landlord. You are the landlord.

I have a very hard time believing that one bedroom apartments are 2k a month (24k for a one-year lease) when houses nearby are 60k. I suspect that there is something you are missing. Housing prices are cyclical, so if you have found the neighborhood that is about to go up in value, then you'll do well. If house prices are overheated like rents are in your city, then you might take a capital loss when you sell.

You need a 20% down payment, so start saving. And have a some extra because you're going to have to pay for stuff. Moving. Furniture. Towels. Towel racks. A washing machine and dryer. A new fridge when the old one gives out.

It probably would be advantageous to buy a house instead of renting. Normally, as you acquire equity in a home, the value of that home rises constantly and you both live in it and acquire wealth from it simultaneously.

However, there are situations in which the housing market completely collapses as it did around 2007 and 2008. In such a situation, your equity in the house might not make up for the property taxes, waste water fees and other expenses of ownership you have incurred. If you are able to ride out such a low point in the value of houses, this usually won't matter that much but no one can be completely sure about what the future will bring.

All that can be said is that home ownership is usually a good long-term investment.

you should be paying rent to yur parents for living ther.

I'd say for you to work at that higher paying job for a few years before buying a house. Average home cost here is $120K, you'd need 20% down, closing costs, etc. and a realtor and lawyer, and money for maintenance. Be sure you've paid off your car and student loans prior to getting into a house. In this poor economy (which has been since the mortgage foreclosure fiasco of 2008) has people struggling to get work so keep the job you get and maybe even get another part time job as well.

As a young person it's best not to get held down by a house just in case you have to move for work.

The one disadvantage of being a young, single person who lives in suburbia is that you will not be surrounded by your peers. This means you are going to have to drive into the city for most activities.

Also consider that owning a house is work. When a married couple does it, they share the burden. So time you would otherwise spend socializing, you'll be cutting grass, painting decks, etc. You also have to factor in your commute, as you very likely will be spending 2-3x more time going to and from work.